Politicians love to look tough on crime and penal policy, but it’s a lamentable tradition, NLJ columnist Jon Robins writes this week
Robins highlights the latest example: Justice Secretary Dominic Raab’s announcement that he plans to ‘take back control’ of the Parole Board. It seems ‘unimaginable’ now, Robins writes, but there was a time when law and order was seen as ‘beyond the grubby world of politics’.
Sadly, Robins notes, the current administration in charge have all ‘read from the populist playbook and take the politicising of “law and order” to all-time lows’.RELATED ARTICLES
